Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 15
The typical hero of this class of stories, who represents the cause of right, and who is resolved by mythologists into so many different essences, presents almost identically the same appearance in most of the countries wherein he has become naturalized.
Who acts: typical hero, mythologists, hero · What happens: represent, resolve, become, naturalize · To what, where: cause, same appearance, many different essences
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (typical hero, mythologists, hero), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hero | det |
| 2 | typical | typical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hero | amod |
| 3 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 represents | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 class | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 class | det |
| 6 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hero | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stories | case |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 class | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 represents | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 represents | nsubj |
| 11 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cause | det |
| 13 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 represents | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 right | case |
| 15 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cause | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 resolved | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 resolved | cc |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 resolved | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 resolved | aux:pass |
| 20 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 represents | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 mythologists | case |
| 22 | mythologists | mythologist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 resolved | obl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 essences | case |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 many | advmod |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 essences | amod |
| 26 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 essences | amod |
| 27 | essences | essence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 resolved | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 presents | punct |
| 29 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 essences | conj |
| 30 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 31 identically | advmod |
| 31 | identically | identically | ADV | _ | 34 appearance | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 appearance | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 appearance | amod |
| 34 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 resolved | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 most | case |
| 36 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 appearance | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 countries | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 countries | det |
| 39 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 most | nmod |
| 40 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 become | advmod |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 become | nsubj |
| 42 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 become | aux |
| 43 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 most | acl:relcl |
| 44 | naturalized | naturalize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 become | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present | the typical hero of this class of stories | the cause of right | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | resolve | present · passive | mythologists | the same appearance in most of the countries | many different essences and presents | tree rules | |||
| 3 | become | present · perfect | hero | wherein property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | naturalize | participle | hero not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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